CHAPTER PAGE I. A Little Kansas Leaven.—_Canfield_ 1 II. The Survivors.—_Singmaster_ 43 III. The Wildcat.—_Terhune_ 55 IV. The Citizen.—_Dwyer_ 85 V. The Indian of the Reservation.—_Coolidge_ 109 VI. The Night Attack.—_Pier_ 119 VII. The Path of Glory.—_Pulver_ 133 VIII. Sergt. Warren Comes Back from France.—_Ames_ 171 IX. The Coward.—_Empey_ 181 X. Château-Thierry.—_Bartlett_ 199 SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND THE STORIES Dorothy Canfield (Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher), the author of _Home Fires in France_ from which “A Little Kansas Leaven” was taken, is one of the most convincing and brilliant writers of the times. She always writes with a purpose, but as all of her work is characterized by originality, clearness, and the vital quality of human sympathy, there is not a dull line in any of her fiction or her educational writings. _Home Fires in France_ is a truthful record of Mrs. Fisher’s impressions of life in tragic, devastated France during the Great War. During much of this period the author was working for the relief of those made blind by war. The tremendous appeal to America made by this book testifies to the sincerity and the genius of the author. Dorothy Canfield was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1879. She obtained degrees from Ohio State University and from Columbia and studied and traveled abroad extensively, becoming an accomplished linguist. She is the author, under the name of Dorothy Canfield, of some of the most brilliant fiction of the day, _The Squirrel-Cage_, _The Bent Twig_, and other novels, and under her married name, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, of some valuable educational works, _The Montessori Mother_, _Mothers and Children_, and other books of progressive ideas in education. Mrs. Fisher is now in France (1918) carrying on her work of mercy for the French soldiers and their families. * * * * *